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shabti
Blue faience shabti, mummiform. Broken in two pieces and mended. Shabtis were put in tombs to do work for their owners in the afterlife. Occasionally also they were placed posthumously in temples and other sacred places so that the owner could take part in the festivals.
Type of item
- shabti
Type of item
- shabti
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Identifier
- W5099
Providing country
- United Kingdom
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First time published on Europeana
- 2015-01-27T15:05:55.144Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T18:15:34.019Z